Basket-ball goal.



M. B. REACH.

BASKET BALL GOAL.

APPLICATION FILED HAY 2l,' 1908.

92mm Patnted May 25, 1909 {Mn/WWW: @wl cesidm wwm.

MlL'lON B. REACH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUbElTS, ASSlUNOR TO A. G SPALDING BROS, INQ, OF CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BASKET-BALL GOAL;

No. 922,830. Specification (if-Letters Patent. Patented May 25,' 1909.

applicatioafiletl may 21, 1908. Serial No. iSJl. i

To all whom may concern: I pressed by a spring 12 fitting between the Be it known that I, h'lnrro'n B. REACH, outer head 13 of the pin and the face of the citizen of the United States, residing at will plate. This spring places" the pin 7' Springfield, Massachusetts, have invented under tension, but allows the pin to have 5 certain new and useful Improvements in sliding;- movementsuiiicicnt to slip with its Basket-Ball Goals, of which the following is head over the projections 9, so as to drop as ecification. below the same, in which position the head l'ly invention relates to basket ball goals, of the pin will lie below the abrupt shoulders and particularly to means for supporting it and thus resist any upward strain or 10 the basket to the Wall whereby the goal, or tendency to upwardmovement of thebracket basket will be firmly held and may be readily 2 and prcvei'it the goal from being jarred nttached to and detached from the Wall, and out of place when hit with the basket ball it consists in the features and combination from the under side. This spring pin will and arrangement of parts hereinafter dehold the bracketin close contact with the scribed and particularly pointed out in the wall plate. At the same time it will permit claims. v the ready removal of the bracket. 2 and the- The invention is illustrated in the acco1n basket whenever desired, it 1 being simply f panying-drawings, in which necessary to press the pin 7- inwardly Figural is a plan View of the basket ball against. the tension of this spring so that its 20 goal and its supporting bracket; Fig. 2 a head will clear the shoulder 11 and then, by

side view with the supporting ring in see lifting the goal and its bracket, the headed lion; Fig. 3 isa face View of the wall plate pins will register with the enlarged mouths for supporting the bracket; and Fig. 4 is of the slots "For their free passage therea vertical sectional viewlhrough'the plate of through. it will he observed that this man- Fig. 3. nor of supporting the goal presents a neat in these drawings, 1 indicates the ring to appearance; the wall is not marred, notwith which the mesh net oi ordinary form is standing the fact that the goal may be re attached, the said ring being secured to a moved and replaced atwill. The elevated bracket 2 extending therefrom and having central portion of the wall plate provides 30 a foot plate 3 extending vertically. This ample space for receiving the headed ends toot plate and its bracket are adapted for of the pins and at the same time these headed Cir attachment to a wall plate shown at a, said ends are kept away from the wall. wall plate having a. run portion 5 to fit. 1 l clann asniy HH'GIllIODI- i against the wall to which it is secured, and 1,. In combination with the basket ball goal 35 l'iaving a central portion Gwhich is slightly and its bracket. a wall plate slots therein,

raised in relation to the rim or margin of headed pins extending from the bracket the plate, the said raised central portion through the said slots, a spring for presshaving slots 7 therein adapted to receive the ing' one of the pins, the slotadjacent the-sal headed pins 8 extendin from. the foot plate spring-pressed pinv having adjacent thereto a 40 of the supporting bracket The slots 7 shoulder over \VlllOl'l the springpressed pin have enlarged mouth portions and contracted may slip to engage with its head beneath the main portions so as to receive and securely sauie, substantially as described. hold the headed pins of the supporting 2. In coml'unation with the bracket and bracket. 1 show three of said slots, and the slotted wall plate, a headed pin on the bracket 45 lower one has formed or associated adjacent passing, through the slot in the' wall plate,

thereto projections 5). These projections said wall plate having a shoulder adjacent have inclined rear faces. as shown in Fig. 4 the slot below which the head or the pinfits, at 10, and abrupt shoulder portions 11. The and a spring for pressing the ,pin, substanloaverrnost headed projection or pin 7 which tiallj as described. i

50 is adapted to lit in the lOWGKIllOSt slot of '5 3. in combination with the basketball those shown, is not fixed rigidly in the ring, a bracket and wall plate having a slot bracket or foot plate, but is adapted to with a shoulder projecting from the face of have slidingmovement; 'there through, being said wall plate adjacent said slot and a pin u movai.

Fche bracket in lation there?" g said 1 in i Over the sh mlder 1d the side of aid shmflder, mime scribed.

4. The combination 

